[tex-live] tl09 release status: coming up
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Thu Oct 15 02:52:17 CEST 2009
On 14 October 2009 Victor Ivrii wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> > On Mi, 14 Okt 2009, C.M. Connelly wrote:
> >> One of the cool features on Mac OS X is the way that you can
> >> switch TeX systems via a preference pane, and a couple of symlinks
> >> get redirected and everything works.
> >
> > I can do that similar. I have TL 2007, 2008, 2009 and can switch between
> > them by adjusting the path. Ok, I could write (if I would have time)
> > a perl/Tk GUI funny program that does that for me, but well, thats all.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Norbert
>
>
> There is a rather minimal thing which makes me slightly uneasy with
> TL: assume I need a package which is not in TeXLive, so I install it
> in texmf-local or ~/texmf. Then TL installs this package, so if I want
> to have this package which I use automatically updated, I need to
> remove it from texmf-local or ~/texm. So, I need to be vigilant.
>
> Having few generations of TL with shared texmf-local makes problem worse.
>
> Have anyone found fool-proof solution?
Move texmf-local and ~/texmf to the end of the search path in
texmf.cnf.
Regards,
Reinhard
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